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allow external UDFs to be precomputed by the DB2 compiler

what reported in PMR 14482.227.000 treated as expected and a RFE suggested to help address the need
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Reasons for FAP structure updates

Need to identify the specific reason why a FAP update structures process needs to be run. At the moment, reasons are in general categories such as "security" and cross-referencing the change in FAP with the trigger event in Controller is difficult.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

enhance jobstarter argument handling

LSF has a job starter feature that allows for programs to execute just prior to the start of a job. This feature is often used to wrap the execution side of one's job. The arguments to the job are passed to a shell script as part of this execution...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Usage of the TLS1.0 protocol is unsafe

A customer has had an audit. From this audit it has ermerged that use of the TLS1.0 protocol is unsafe. Yet Cognos depends on this protocol on several fronts. Is there a solution for this?
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Requesting support for our Virtualization layer that we use here at Prudential for our Clint software installations

We are requesting support for our Virtualization layer that we use here at Prudential for our Clint software installations:VMware Horizon client to connect to VDI and installed DS client in VDI
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Datastage Connect to Apache Kudu

Apache Kudu has the capability of SQL insert and update, and also support Spark RDD. It's much better than Hive and Impala, which no update is possible. If Datastage and Cognos support connection to Kudu as other databases, it would be great.
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

XMETA repository on EXADATA platform (Oracle 12c on multitenant container database (CDB)

Oracle 12c Metadata Repository database creation fails if the database is a CDB database
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Enhancement for Symphony7.1 API

Currently Symphony7.1 API does not provide a way to give details of blocked host. With current function char* soam_AppAttrDetail::hostPidPairs. This function returns the hosts for failed SIMs, which may sometimes include some unblocked host in the...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Q Capture - Specify TRANS_BATCH_SZ at the SendQ level

We have q-replication from DB2 on z/OS to Native Oracle targets. Currently the TRANS_BATCH_SZ value is allowed to be specified only at the Capture level. We request for the ability to specify this at the send queue level. The reason for this reque...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Add additional task statuses to the Search Member Task History search type

We are in the process of upgrading from Initiate 10.1 to MDM 11.5. In 10.1, we see two statuses for resolved potential overlay tasks, "Overlay Same Person" and "Overlay Resolved" in the Search Member Task History search type. However, in 11.5 we o...
almost 8 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration